The Laughing Wolf

Farewell Aunt Eunice

The Huntsville area has lost a local legend: Aunt Eunice, more properly known as Eunice Merrell. She has been a fixture and goodwill ambassador for the region for many, many years and departed into the light Tuesday afternoon.

Aunt Eunice’s Country Kitchen has been a staple in the area for decades, and was the place you always took out of town visitors to get a Southern salt-lick country breakfast. That is to say, grits, country ham, red-eye gravy, and all the old-style sodium your system could stand. Rich, famous, poor, and unknown, it seemed that everyone ate at her place at least once.

A feature of the restaurant was the liar’s table/corner. Many a scientist and politician has eaten there, and many a politician has been sat there by Aunt Eunice. You never knew who you would see there early in the morning. Those in the know on local politics, or celebrity watching, would keep an eye out there because everyone who was anyone did come through those doors.

LW